8-letter words containing c, i, t, e
- capitate — shaped like a head, as certain flowers or inflorescences
- capitule — (obsolete) A summary.
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- captaine — Obsolete spelling of captain.
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- carinate — having a keel or ridge; shaped like a keel
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- casteism — the belief in, and adherence to, the caste system
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- cat line — A cat line is a thin cable which is used with other equipment to move small parts of a rig or drill string.
- catamite — a boy kept for sexual purposes
- catbrier — any prickly vines of the genus Smilax, such as greenbrier
- catechin — a soluble yellow solid substance found in catechu and mahogany wood and used in tanning and dyeing. Formula: C15H14O6
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- caterina — a female given name, form of Catherine.
- catering — Catering is the activity of providing food and drink for a large number of people, for example at weddings and parties.
- cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
- catiline — Latin name Lucius Sergius Catilina. ?108–62 bc, Roman politician: organized an unsuccessful conspiracy against Cicero (63–62)
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- cattiest — catlike; feline.
- caudaite — a small meteorite, generally less than one half millimeter in diameter, containing crystals of more or less pure magnetite.
- cavitate — to form cavities or bubbles
- cavitied — Having cavities.
- cavities — Plural form of cavity.
- cd tilde — /C-D til-d*/ To go home. From the Unix C shell and Korn-shell command "cd ~", which takes one to one's "$HOME" directory. "cd" with no arguments does the same thing.
- cei-pact — Central European Initiative on Parallel Computation.
- ceinture — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- celerity — rapidity; swiftness; speed
- celibate — Someone who is celibate does not marry or have sex, because of their religious beliefs.
- cellists — Plural form of cellist.
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
- centeric — Misspelling of centric.
- centesis — the surgical puncturing of a part of the body with a hollow needle in order to extract fluid
- centiare — a unit of area equal to one square metre
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- centimes — Plural form of centime.
- centimos — Plural form of centimo.
- centinel — Obsolete spelling of sentinel.
- centiped — Archaic form of centipede.
- centoist — a person who composes centos
- centries — Plural form of centry.
- centring — a temporary structure, esp one made of timber, used to support an arch during construction
- centrism — (especially in continental Europe) a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.
- centrist — Centrist policies and parties are moderate rather than extreme.
- centroid — the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- ceratite — An ammonoid fossil of an intermediate type found chiefly in the Permian and Triassic periods, typically with partly frilled and partly lobed suture lines.